Carroll, Rev. P.J.

Songs of Creelabeg. [With the heartbreaking printed dedication: “To My Mother – Who made the morn of life so sweet – The day is fragrant yet”]

New York, The Devin-Adair Company, 1916. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 162 pages. Original Hardcover with gilt debossed illustration to cover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Gilt top edge. Slight tanning to pages, pastedowns and endpaper mostly. Previous owner’s name in old Irish script in black ink pen on endpaper. Ephemera (Prayer card from New York) loosely inserted.

Includes for example the following poems: Tears and Blood / Lady Day in Ireland / Creela Bay etc.

P.J.Carroll was a Limerick priest, living in the United States.
Rev. P.J. Carroll has been pastor of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic church at Tama since the fall of 1887, when he was transferred from Fonda, Iowa, to take charge of what was a weak but struggling parish. Under his inspiration and downright hard work, the spiritual and material conditions of the charge assigned to him have completely changed. The Catholic families which he found in the parish were inspired with hope and faith in the work of the church, new households were brought into the fold, and in 1893 educational affairs had become so prosperous that the erection of a school was commenced. (Source: Celtic Cousins / Tipperary Biographies)

• Keywords: 20th Century Literature · Irish Interest · Irish Poetry · Irish Writers · Limerick · Limerick (Ireland)
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 60409AB

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